Paramecium meets cyanobacterium: How two become one. Story by Science X staff • 1w. W hen two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis.

The cyanobacterium, or alga, is officially known as UTEX 3222, but the team behind its discovery have given it the far catchier nickname of “Chonkus” – because, ...

His lab was working on a project to isolate cyanobacteria from hornwort plants, and noticed something weird in a sample from a rainforest in Panama. The researchers sequenced the cyanobacterium’s DNA, ...

Cyanobacterium found in algae collection holds promise for biotech applications. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 02 / 150202105745.htm ...

Unlike the cyanobacterium Microcystis, which when turned poisonous creates a showy, stinky, gangrenous bloom, the single-filament Cylindrospermopsis doesn’t colonize, using instead a tiny gas ...

Ultrastructure of a condensed chromosome-like structure in a cyanobacterium. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 10 / 161020100557.htm ...

Researchers describe the genome of a cyanobacterium, OmCyn, that has previously gone undetected in marine metagenomics studies due to its symbiotic relationship with a dinoflagellate, the ...

A lichen, or lichenized fungus, is actually two organisms functioning as a single, stable unit. Lichens comprise a fungus living in a symbiotic relationship with an alga or cyanobacterium (or both ...

Nearly 30 years after an outbreak of AVM killed hundreds of eagles in Arkansas, scientists have traced the origins of the deadly disease to a previously unknown cyanobacterium.

A newly identified cyanobacterium species produces within its cell an unusual amorphous carbonate mineral containing magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium (Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1216171).

Harvard Medical School researchers have engineered a photosynthetic cyanobacterium to boost sugar production, as a first step towards potential commercial production of biofuels and other ...